Well, maybe I am doing the wrong thing. I want to be able to view my
external hard drive to have access to all the files on the drive. How am I
to do this?
"Bo Berglund" wrote:
Quote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:01 -0700, MacMan0295
> <MacMan0295@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Quote:
> >I am running MSVS 2005 on a Windows Vista 64bit OS. I installed the server
> >just fine and created a MS Server 2003 virtual server fine. But when I go to
> >create a linked virtual disk to one of my physical drives, the available disk
> >drives are not available. How do I get my physical drives to be available in
> >the drop down to link?
> >
>
> You can only link to a physical disk, which is *not in use* by the
> host operating system. It cannot have a drive letter associated with
> it, so you need to go into the disk manager and remove the drive
> letter from it in order to do the link.
>
> But why do you want to do this?
> Generally linking is only done in order to copy data from the linked
> disk to an ordinary virtual disk inside a guest.
>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
>